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Research confirms it's a small world, after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA-led research team has confirmed what Walt Disney told us all along: Earth really is a small world, after all.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast




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NASA small explorer mission celebrates ten years and forty thousand X-ray flares

(PhysOrg.com) -- On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New super-earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Detecting detrimental change in coral reefs

Over dinner on R.V. Calypso while anchored on the lee side of Glover's Reef in Belize, Jacques Cousteau told Phil Dustan that he suspected humans were having a negative impact on coral reefs. Dustan—a ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taking moments to enjoy life helps patients make better health decisions

The experience of daily positive affect -- a mild, happy feeling -- and self-affirmation helps some patients with chronic diseases, including coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and asthma, make better decisions ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

OrcaM is new kid on block for 3-D data capture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Call it automated photograph station, seven-camera system, 3-D model showcase, or digital reconstruction tool. OrcaM is being described as all these things. Whatever the tag, the "OrcaM" name ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report

Curiosity rover will serve as terramechanics instrument in explortation of Martian soils

NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Origin of thermonuclear supernova discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, which caused a supernova seen in a nearby galaxy. The ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The next big step toward atom-specific dynamical chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- For Ali Belkacem of Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division, “What is chemistry?” is not a rhetorical question.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers build computer model that explains lakes and storms on Saturn's moon Titan

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -297 degrees Fahrenheit (about 90 kelvins) ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA's first J-2X engine rockets through first round of testing; development continues strong

(PhysOrg.com) -- The best tech gift for propulsion engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.? It's NASA's first new human-rated rocket engine to be developed in 40 years. The J-2X engine ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 13


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